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Falling in Love with Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson scholar Trenton B. Olsen reviews “A Wilder Shore” by Camille Peri.
Literary Criticism
"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette
A World Literature Begins to Take Shape
Mitchell Abidor reviews Edwin Frank’s “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.”
Tales Wagging Translators
Bruce Krajewski reviews Damion Searls’s “The Philosophy of Translation.”
How Does the Writer Say Etcetera?
Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of “etceterization.”
I Like the Coldness
Madeleine Connors interviews Lili Anolik about her new book, “Didion & Babitz.”
Fitful Glimpses and Spurts
Katie Kadue reviews Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz.”
Epitaph for the American Idea
Eric Weiskott reviews Elizabeth Willis’s “Liontaming in America.”
A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide
Peter B. Kaufman reviews the 18th edition of “The Chicago Manual of Style.”
The Weight of Estrangement
Grace Linden reviews Deborah Levy’s “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.”
Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited
Dennis Wilson Wise reviews two books on Tolkien and the challenges Tolkien studies faces when engaging the wider discipline.
Why (Re)translation Matters
Paul Reitter discusses the aesthetic and cultural value of “retranslating” classic texts.
Scored in the Key of Leisure
LARB presents an excerpt from Dorothy’s upcoming reissue of Renee Gladman’s “To After That (TOAF).”
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